Wow what a crazy day for Mr. B! I think there were 40 adults that came through our math class today and that doesn't count the student teachers or for 9-06 Mrs. W. I'm very proud of the way you all handled so many teachers coming through the room during your classes. You all did a splendid job of staying focused and doing what you needed to do.

Just remember you get a long weekend but Mr. B. is off teaching teachers about math tomorrow. Thank you to all the students who gave me your "Stash Its" to show to other teachers. I chose only a few of you although I could have chosen many more from the class. Thank you again to all for making teaching so much fun!!

9-05 another challenge to you... Joseph posted a video about rationals. I would like someone in class or many of you to improve upon the Video. Who is up for the challenge? See me so we can discuss it. There are some mistakes in the video! Can you spot them?

Hello again 9-06 and 9-05. Hope your weekend is going well. On Monday I will be collecting your Stash It packages. In the packages you will need to have the following materials. please make sure to have as much of it as possible in the package.1. 3 Mathlinks from pages 15, 25, 35 and the major Mathlink from page 39. (10%)2. Journal. Entries from everyday(3%) and one highlited Journal entry to show your best learning day (2%).3. Self Evaluations (Traffic Light Sheets) completed. (2%)4. Foldables completed... (2%)5. Two tests signed by mom, dad or whomever takes care of you. (1%)Total 20% of first section mark.

Our next unit of study will be Rational Numbers. If you are interested you may look at chapter two to see what we are going to study. www.mytextbook.ca

If anyone is interested please let me know where the term "Rational Numbers" came from and post a blog.

Hello 9-06 and 9-05, I hope your weekend is going well. I have assigned work for you in class that you need to be working on over the weekend. I will list the work here later. I am still waiting to see ho will expand on the Babylonians. There are other questions I have asked that you should consider answering. It will help with one of our next units of study.

The work you need to complete for me by Tuesday is online in the student text. For those of you who do not have access I certainly hope you have a book from me.

CYU page 31 #1-3Practice page 32 and 33 #5, 6, 7, and 9Apply page34 #13 to 19Extend one of 20 or 21 and one of 22 and 23 (For those who wish to challenge themselves and learn more)Question # 11 I would like you all to blog on this question and let's see how big the list becomes....

Have a great weekend looking forward to discussing your work with you on Tuesday.

Hello 9-06 and 9-05, who can help me out? I'm trying to find the most elegant algebaric expression to help me to find the surface area of a cube, rectangular prism, cylinder, or a composite of any of these shapes. What about the surface area of a triangular prism? How does symmetry help us solve some of these surface area problems? What happens if a part of any of these shapes is missing? How do I find surface area then? Help me out and post what you know over the next few days. Maybe someone can make a movie to explain the process?? Looking forward to some fantastic posts.

By the way 9-05 http://spmath90509.blogspot.com/ your explanations for, "Why 360 degrees?" really rock!! Keep up the great posts. Our place value is ones (1), tens (10), hundreds (100), thousands (1000) etc. Did anyone find out what 60 looks like in the Babylonian number system? What would be the next place value and what does it look like? or the next? Is there an easy way to write these numbers using our number system?